Rajant Wireless Mesh BreadCrumb® System

Utilized for Mining Operational and Safety Improvements

MALVERN, Pa.–(EMWNews)–Rajant Corporation, a leading provider of portable, reliable, and

adaptable wireless networking solutions, announced today that it has

been selected by the Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC), to supply the

primary communications platform for mining operations at the IOC mine

located in Labrador City, Labrador, Canada.

The mine-wide Rajant BreadCrumb® wireless mesh

network will enable IOC to run multiple mining applications such as

dispatch and health monitoring of capital equipment. The wireless

network will be comprised of both fixed, stationary systems and a high

number of mobile wireless systems all simultaneously interconnected.

Thousands of Rajant BreadCrumb® systems are

deployed worldwide, including a mine-wide installation at the Rio Tinto

owned Kennecott Utah Copper mine at Bingham Canyon.

“Helping IOC improve its operational

efficiency and safety was the main driver in using the Rajant BreadCrumb®

wireless mesh system,” said Gary Anderson,

Senior Vice President of Mining for Rajant. “Because

of the conditions in Labrador City, we also knew they would require a

wireless mesh system that could handle the extreme temperatures, wind,

vibration and dust. Already this year, they have had temperatures of -40º

Celsius and it is not uncommon to have winds over 100 mph.”

IOC will deploy a large number of Rajant BreadCrumb®

systems in an interconnected wireless, meshed, self-healing network that

will allow loader trucks, shovels, pumps, laptops and other production

equipment to communicate with each other in real-time. Many devices that

require wireless communications are constantly on the move throughout

the mine and the BreadCrumb® nodes will be

able to rapidly adapt to any changes in the network topology, assuring

that IP traffic uptime and bandwidth are maximized. A unique benefit of

a Rajant network is that no ‘root node’,

central access point or ‘LAN controller’

is required, thus eliminating extra network latency and single points of

failure.

IOC is Canada’s largest iron ore producer and a leading global supplier

of iron ore pellets and concentrates. Owned by Rio Tinto (58.7%),

Mitsubishi Corporation (26.2%), and the Labrador Iron Ore Royalty Income

Fund (15.1%), IOC operates within the Rio Tinto Iron Ore group and

maintains its head office in Montreal, Quebec. The facility began

operation in 1962 and has produced more than one billion tonnes of crude

ore with an average iron content of 39 percent.

“We selected the Rajant solution because of

its ability to scale to our always changing mine configuration. We also

needed a network system that could handle our tough environment,”

said Robert Kuhne, Mine Management and Control Coordinator for IOC. “Their

support has been second to none.”

About Rajant:

Rajant Corporation enables secure communications-on-the-move through a

portable meshed wireless network that can rapidly reconfigure and adapt

in real-time. Rajant’s BreadCrumb® Wireless

solutions provide networks for Mining, Homeland Security, Military,

First Responders and Public Safety and provide voice and data

communications across a meshed, self-healing network. Rajant’s

BreadCrumb network nodes communicate with IP based client devices such

as laptops, PDAs, video cameras, satellite terminals, networked radios,

RFID’s and sensor devices. Please visit www.rajant.com

or call (484) 595-0233.

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